India, Feb. 16 -- A routine browser update just became urgent. Google has patched a high-severity Chrome zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2441, that is already being exploited in the wild. If you use Chrome on Windows, macOS, or Linux, this is not an update to postpone. The flaw carries a CVSS score of 8.8, placing it firmly in the high-risk category.

CVE-2026-2441 is a use-after-free vulnerability in Chrome's CSS component. In technical terms, this happens when memory that has already been released is reused by the program. Attackers can manipulate this condition to execute malicious code.

According to the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), the bug allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside Chrome's sandb...